Chicken and Kibble

Ingredients

3 to 4 chicken breasts (no bone, no skin)
1 1/2 cups non-sticky rice (we use basmati)

Directions

Microwave the chicken breasts until fully cooked. Cut into tip of the finger size pieces. Reserve the juice for the first meal. Steam the rice until fully cooked. Combine the chicken and rice. Add a pinch of salt if you didn't already salt the rice. Add any other seasoning your dog likes. (Ours have severe allergies, so we season with Feverfew.)

When ready to feed the dogs, combine half their recommended kibble with sufficient chicken/rice mixture to make up about 1/3 their ration. Make up the rest with fat free cottage cheese.

This makes a very low fat diet, typically less than 10%. You can add vegetable fats or fish oil to improve vitamin absorption, but do be sparing. In the first batch of food, add the cooking juices from the chicken to the kibble.

This recipe makes enough food for several feedings, so don't put the chicken drippings in the storage container: it will only hasten spoilage. Also, don't leave the mix down: it will spoil very fast.

Cheese Hotdog

Dog Food Recipe Ingredients:

· 1 Hot Dog
· 1 Slice Cheese

Dog Food Recipe Directions:

Cut hotdog in to pieces. Put pieces of cheese on top. Microwave it until the cheese is runny let it cool. Then give it to your dog.

Apple Crunch Pup Cakes

Dog Food Recipe Ingredients:

· 2 3/4 cups water
· 1/4 cup applesauce, unsweetened
· 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
· 4 cups whole wheat flour
· 1 cup dried apple chips ( you can also use fresh fruit)
· 1 tablespoon baking powder
· 1 egg, beaten slightly
· 4 tablespoons honey

Dog Food Recipe Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray muffin tin with cooling spray. Mix all wet ingredients thoroughly. Combine dry ingredients in separate bowl. Add wet to dry slowly , scraping well to make sure no dry mixture is left. Pour into muffin tins. Bake for 1 1/4 hours or until a toothpick inserted into center comes out dry. Store in a sealed container. Makes around 12-14 pupcakes.

Dog Food

Dog food is material needed for consumption by dogs or other canine (usually a plant or animal). Special types of dog food, given as a reward, and not as a staple, are known as dog treats.

Some people make their own dog food, feed their dogs meals made from ingredients purchased in grocery or health-food stores or give their dogs a raw food diet. Many others rely on commercially manufactured dog food.

There are many different recommendations on what diet is best for dogs. Some argue that dogs have thrived on leftovers and scraps from their owners for thousands of years and that commercial dog foods (which have only been available for the past century) contain poor-quality meats, additives, and other ingredients dogs should not ingest. Some maintain that commercial dog food is not nutritionally sufficient.